Elections and voting
13 tracked measures relating to elections and voting, in 5 states.
Topic labels are applied by this site to group related measures. They are a navigation aid, not a legal classification, and they are not assigned by any state.
Arizona
1 measure
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On the ballot
Proposition 144 would amend the Arizona Constitution to declare that only citizens may register and vote in Arizona elections, and that election results are decided solely by eligible…
California
3 measures
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On the ballot
Proposition 39 would write voter identification requirements into the California Constitution. Voting by mail would require the voter to designate a government-issued identification number…
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On the ballot
Proposition 4 would repeal the Political Reform Act's ban on using public money for political candidates' campaigns. State and local governments could then set up public campaign financing…
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On the ballot
Proposition 5 would remove the replacement question from recall elections for state officers. Voters currently answer two questions at once: whether to remove the officer, and who should…
Massachusetts
2 measures
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On the ballot
Question 3 would end party primaries for state and county offices in Massachusetts and replace them with a single primary in which every candidate appears on one ballot regardless of party…
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On the ballot
Question 4 would let eligible Massachusetts residents register to vote and cast a ballot on Election Day at their polling place. A person would show proof of residency, such as a driver’s…
Michigan
3 measures
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Did not qualify
This proposed constitutional amendment would have required new voters to prove U.S. citizenship when registering, and required existing voters to prove citizenship if the state could not…
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On the ballot
This initiated statute would bar regulated electric and gas utilities, government contractors receiving more than $250,000 a year from the state, and people or organizations with…
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Withdrawn
This proposed constitutional amendment would have required ranked-choice voting in most Michigan congressional, state, and local elections, letting voters rank candidates in order of…
Nevada
4 measures
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Did not qualify
This proposed constitutional amendment would have changed the Nevada Constitution's unfunded-mandate provision, which a 2022 Nevada Supreme Court ruling reads as requiring sponsors of any…
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Did not qualify
This proposed constitutional amendment would have added to Nevada's Voters' Bill of Rights a right for every registered voter to take part in any publicly funded election, regardless of…
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On the ballot
Question 7 would write a voter identification requirement into the Nevada Constitution. Voters in person would show a government-issued photo ID — such as a driver's license, passport…
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Did not qualify
This proposed constitutional amendment would have added a right to equal treatment in all aspects of representative government regardless of party affiliation, explicitly naming…
About elections and voting ballot measures
This tag covers the rules of voting itself: how voters register and prove identity, who may vote in a primary and how those primaries are structured, whether ballots are counted by ranked choice or plurality, how mail and early voting work, who administers elections, and when recounts and audits are required.
Election-administration measures are unusual in that they change the process by which every other question on this site is decided. That makes their effective dates and their implementation requirements especially worth reading. Many do not change anything on their own: they direct a legislature or a secretary of state to build a system, set a deadline, and leave the details to later rulemaking.
Points to check in the text: whether the change is constitutional or statutory; which elections it reaches — state, local, federal, or all three; whether it applies to the next election or a later cycle; and whether it carries an appropriation, since a mandate without funding often arrives late. Nevada and several other states also require a citizen-initiated constitutional amendment to pass in two consecutive general elections, so a question appearing for a second time is not a rerun but the final step.
Wording, numbering, and certification status are set by each state and can change up to the printing of the ballot. Every summary above links to the records it was built from; where those records disagree with this page, the records govern. Confirm the final ballot text with your state or county election authority before you rely on it.